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Emerging Chagas Disease: Trophic Network and Cycle of Transmission of Trypanosoma cruzi from Palm Trees in the Amazon

Antonio R.L. Teixeira,* Pedro Sadi Monteiro,* José M. Rebelo,† Enrique R. Argañaraz,* Daniela Vieira,* Liana Lauria-Pires,* Rubens Nascimento,* Cássia A. Vexenat,* Antonio R. Silva,† Steven K. Ault,‡ and Jackson M. Costa‡
*University of Brasília, †Federal University of Maranhão, and ‡Pan-American Health Organization/World Health Organization, Brasília, Brazil

Figure 5. The informal economy: man carrying a babassu palm frond to be sold as soft thatch. A single palm tree enclosing five trophic levels associated with the Rhodnius pictipes (Hemiptera: Reduviidae) transmission of T. cruzi in the babassu microsystem.

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Figure 5. The informal economy: man carrying a babassu palm frond to be sold as soft thatch. A single palm tree enclosing five trophic levels associated with the Rhodnius pictipes (Hemiptera: Reduviidae) transmission of T. cruzi in the babassu microsystem.
  

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